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Pontic rock-cut tombs
Pontic rock-cut tombs: Hellenistic chamber tombs of the Mithridatid kings of Pontus, chiefly the five monumental royal tombs, 8 to 15 m high, cut into Mount Harşena above Amasya, Turkey, ending when Pharnaces I moved to Sinope in 183 BCE.
Pony Valley Camel Trekking
Pony Valley Camel Trekking (포니밸리) is a theme park in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo, Jeju, South Korea, offering camel rides on dromedaries imported from Australia, the first such import to Korea, located near Seongeup Folk Village.
Pool of Bethesda
Pool of Bethesda (Beth-Zatha), ancient double-basin pool in Jerusalem's Bezetha quarter near St Anne's Church, described in John 5:2 with five porticoes; excavated as a Herodian miqveh with a later Serapis-Asklepios cult and Byzantine-Crusader churches.
Poor Knights Islands
Poor Knights Islands (Tawhiti Rahi and Aorangi): volcanic islands 22 km off Northland, New Zealand, a nature reserve with no landing, ringed by New Zealand's second marine reserve (2,410 ha, 1981, fully no-take since 1998), tapu since 1822, famed for diving and subtropical fish.
Pope Leo XIV's childhood home
Pope Leo XIV's childhood home is a 1949 brick house in Dolton, Illinois, where Robert Prevost, the first US pope elected in 2025, spent his boyhood.
Popeye Village
Popeye Village (Sweethaven Village), Anchor Bay, Mellieħa, Malta: the 19 wooden buildings built in 1979 as the set of the 1980 Robert Altman musical Popeye, preserved and now an open-air museum and family attraction.
Poppa Golden Deer Park
Poppa Golden Deer Park (ပုပ္ပါးရွှေသမင်ခြံ) is a zoo near Mount Popa, Kyaukpadaung, Mandalay Region, Myanmar, where Eld's deer (golden deer) and barking deer roam a 17-acre sandalwood forest and can be fed and photographed by visitors.
Porcupine Mountains
Porcupine Mountains ("the Porkies") are a 2-billion-year-old range on Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, protected since 1945 in the state's largest park, about 60,000 acres with 35,000 acres of virgin northern hardwood forest.
Pordonnium
Pordonnium (Pordonion), ancient road station in Commagene on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Capriandas and Perre, on the Comana Cappadocia–Samosata road; usually identified with Adıyaman (Hisn-i Mansur), Turkey.
Pori National Urban Park
Pori National Urban Park is a protected park in Pori, Finland, confirmed in 2002 as the country's second national urban park, built around the Kokemäenjoki River.
Pororo Premier Theme Park Dasan
Pororo Premier Theme Park Dasan (프리미어 뽀로로테마파크 다산) is an indoor Pororo-character children's theme park on the B1 level of Hyundai Terra Tower DIMC in Dasan, Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, with 16 play areas, character shows, and a Travel zone; it is the capital region's largest Pororo branch, distinct from the multi-floor Wolmido park.
Porphyrites (mountain)
Mons Porphyrites (Gebel Abu Dokhan), Egyptian mountain in the Eastern Desert 50 km west of Hurghada; the ancient world's only source of imperial porphyry, quarried from AD 18 to the early fifth century and hauled to the Nile at Qena.
Port Alsworth, Alaska
Port Alsworth is a roadless census-designated place of 186 residents (2020) on Lake Clark, Alaska, the only community inside Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, founded in 1950 by bush pilot Leon "Babe" Alsworth and named for him.
Port Authority Bus Terminal
The Port Authority Bus Terminal, opened in 1950, is the central hub for bus travel to and from New York City, handling over 200,000 riders a weekday.
Port Campbell National Park
Port Campbell National Park: 24.24 km² Victorian national park on the Shipwreck Coast along the Great Ocean Road, protecting the Twelve Apostles limestone stacks, Loch Ard Gorge and London Bridge; declared 1964, IUCN Category II, managed by GORCAPA since 2024.
Port Phillip Bay & Bellarine Peninsula
Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar site, near Geelong, Victoria: a 22,651-hectare wetland listed 15 December 1982, meeting 6 of 9 Ramsar criteria, vital for migratory waders, threatened species, and expanded to 24,110 hectares in 2026.
Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena (Puerto, fortalezas y conjunto monumental de Cartagena), UNESCO World Heritage site since 1984: the walled city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, its 16th-18th century fortifications, and Castillo San Felipe de Barajas.
Portchester Castle (United Kingdom)
Portchester Castle, Hampshire: medieval castle within the walls of Portus Adurni, a late 3rd-century Roman Saxon Shore fort; the best-preserved Roman fort north of the Alps, later a Saxon burh, royal residence, and Napoleonic prisoner-of-war depot.
Porticus Absidata
Porticus Absidata, the apsidal or horseshoe-shaped portico behind Rome's Forum Transitorium (Forum of Nerva), built under Domitian as the grand entrance from the Subura to the imperial fora; also called porticus curva.
Porticus Aemilia
Porticus Aemilia was a vast porticoed building of the Roman Republic near the Tiber in Rome, traditionally identified as a warehouse and begun in 193 BC.
Porticus Minucia
Porticus Minucia: Roman portico in the Campus Martius built by M. Minucius Rufus (consul 110 BC) after his Scordisci triumph; a second Minucia Frumentaria later hosted Rome's grain dole.
Porticus Octaviae
Porticus Octaviae (Portico of Octavia, Portico d'Ottavia): Augustan quadriporticus in Rome's Campus Martius, built 27-23 BC by Augustus for his sister Octavia, enclosing temples of Juno Regina and Jupiter Stator, a Greek-Latin library, and the Curia Octaviae; restored by Severus and Caracalla in AD 203.
Porticus Pompei
Porticus Pompei (Porticus Pompeianae, Portico of Pompey): quadriporticus garden built 55 BC by Pompey behind his Theatre in Rome's Campus Martius, about 180 x 135 m, with plane-tree groves, fountains, and the Curia Pompei where Caesar was murdered.
Portions of Katra Mound Which Are Not in the Possession of Nazul Tenants on Which Formerly Stood A Temple of Kehsavadeva Which Was Dismantled and the Site Utilised For the Mosque of Aurangzeb
Centrally protected ASI monument (Agra Circle serial 139) at Katra Keshavdev, Mathura, named from a 1920 notification; site of the 1618 Keshavadeva temple dismantled under Aurangzeb and replaced by the Shahi Eidgah mosque.
Portonaccio sanctuary at Veii
Portonaccio sanctuary (Santuario di Portonaccio), Etruscan extramural sanctuary of Veii near Isola Farnese, Rome; oracle of Minerva/Menerva with a Tuscan temple of Apollo, source of the 1916 Apollo of Veii terracotta.
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) is a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape on Italy's eastern Ligurian coast, inscribed 1997 under criteria ii, iv, v, covering 4,689.25 ha of terraced villages and islands.
Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)
Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida), also Mazagão, al-Brija, al-Mahdouma: a Portuguese fortified colony in Morocco, 90 km southwest of Casablanca, built 1514 and enlarged 1541-1548 into a star fort; abandoned 1769, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004.
Portus Cosanus
Portus Cosanus, the Roman port of Cosa at Ansedonia, Tuscany, founded 273 BC; earliest known Roman harbor, with pozzolana concrete piers, a lagoon fishery, and the earliest saqiya water-lifting device.
Portus Delphini
Delphinis (Portus Delphini, Delphini portus) was a Roman harbor settlement on the Ligurian coast, identified with modern Portofino; cited by Pliny and the itineraries, with a castrum, turris, and garrison.
Portus Dubris
Portus Dubris was the Roman port and settlement at modern Dover in Kent, England, a major naval base of the Classis Britannica fleet and a principal entry point to Britannia.